CHAPTER XVI
Ah cum began to worry. "A good idea!" exclaimed the carpenter. “Mary, you are so sexy. You need fear no interruption from him, or any of his
myrmidons. Stanley, having pretended
to linger to smoke, fled suddenly up-stairs to petrography, and when Veronica
tapped he answered through the locked door, “Go away, Vee! I’m busy,” and
made a lapidary’s wheel buzz loudly. ‘I’ve never found a woman who did not drive me into a
frenzy of boredom. That world of fine printed cambrics and escorted
maidens, of delicate secondary meanings and refined allusiveness, presented
itself to her imagination with the brightness of a lost paradise, as indeed for
many women it is a lost paradise. . *****
From the comatose state, Spurlock passed into that of the babbling fever; but that
guarding instinct which is called subconsciousness held a stout leash on his
secret. "
"You are heiress to the Trenchard property," rejoined Jonathan, "one of the
largest estates in Lancashire. It would put the whole adventure on a
broader and better footing; it seemed, indeed, almost the only possible way in
which she might emerge from her rebellion with anything like success. ’ Gerald knew the caress in his voice was a trifle ironic. "And on my part, I shall not lift a hand
to defend myself. His hunger satisfied, his spirits began to
revive, and with this change of mood all his natural audacity returned. But indeed that is not at all
a good description of her attitude.
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